Comments by "cosmosofinfinity" (@cosmosofinfinity) on "Matt Binder Sets Tim Pool's Comments Section ON FIRE" video.
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What misgendering is to a transperson is what "monkey" or the N-word is to black people or any other racial/ethnic/religious slur, it is extremely hurtful and dehumanizing, and the N-word IS banned from Twitter. Because it's hate speech. Harassment or violent threat-like or inciteful language likewise is not protected free speech. Disallowing conservatives from calling black people the N-word is "prejudiced against conservatives" only in effect and not by design because conservatives happen to enjoy engaging in dehumanizing hate speech against minority groups who are a protected class specifically because of all the abuse they get. Not all conservatives, but the ones that do will get banned. It is possible to be a conservative and respect other people's identities, just like how it is possible to refrain from reflexively calling black people the N-word, even though there are those who truly do just think of black people as n*ggers and think nothing of using the word so casually to black people's faces, it's innocent to them and they care not what the word means to other people, because they just can't fathom that black people are people and deserving of equal treatment and not being condescended to.
Would they think taking down Isis "death to America" videos as Twitter discriminating against the Muslim religion? Would taking down antifa videos be Twitter prejudiced against the left's free speech? Shutting down the nastier aspects of these movements does not prevent the civil believers from speaking. Notice how many conservatives are still on Twitter, yet claiming conservatives aren't allowed on Twitter, whilst saying it ON Twitter, with no issues. Just merely having these attitudes is still allowed, up and until the point where you go over that line of Twitter ToS for abusing other users, and there are plenty who get away with even that.
Making a policy against hate speech is not targeted towards conservatives just because conservatives more than other groups are the ones who break the rules of civil discourse. If casually denying other people's identity as an independent self-respecting human is what it means to be a conservative, maybe that should cause some self-reflection about how they are morally right and why it is so important to die on this ideological hill.
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